Definition of Despisement

1. n. A despising.

Definition of Despisement

1. Noun. despising ¹

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Definition of Despisement

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Despisement

despiciency
despight
despights
despinning
despiramine
despiritualize
despiritualized
despiritualizes
despisable
despisableness
despisal
despisals
despise
despised
despisedness
despiser
despisers
despises
despisest
despiseth
despising
despisingly
despisingness
despite
despited
despiteful
despitefully
despitefulness

Literary usage of Despisement

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Learned Lady in England, 1650-1760 by Myra Reynolds (1920)
"... by the over-weaning conceit men have of themselves and through a despisement of us.2 But she presents her book, with some confidence to the universities ..."

2. The Autobiography of a Working Man by Alexander Somerville (1848)
"... killing toil at the shore, the payment of which was but the means of getting more drink, and more drink the means of sinking deeper in self-despisement. ..."

3. American English by Gilbert Milligan Tucker (1921)
"... name in "Rigging and Seamanship," 1.165 (1794). DESK—Pulpit. Murray gives British citations of the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. despisement—Scorn. ..."

4. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Classified and Arranged So by Peter Mark Roget (1911)
"Adv. disrespectfully &c. adj. 930. Contempt. — N. contempt, disdain, scorn, sovereign contempt; despi- eal, -ciency; despisement; ..."

5. New Thoughts Or Shakespeare, Richelieu, Napoleon, Cleopatra, Dickens by Charles Henry Fitler (1898)
"... ambition's triumph, he showered unto Macbeth, unto the secret of its touch did prove a human torment that bids its own despisement to its plan revealed. ..."

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